Disordered eating and emotional eating in Arab, middle eastern, and north African American women.

Autor: Kalantzis MA; Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, United States of America. Electronic address: makalan@bgsu.edu., Braden AL; Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, United States of America. Electronic address: abbym@bgsu.edu., Haidar A; Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, United States of America. Electronic address: ahaidar@northwestern.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Eating behaviors [Eat Behav] 2024 Apr; Vol. 53, pp. 101868. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2024.101868
Abstrakt: Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African (A-MENA) American women are often subject to intersectional discrimination, and they have also not been traditionally recognized as a distinct racial group in disordered eating literature. No study to date has provided descriptive information on disordered and emotional eating A-MENA American women, nor has examined perceptions of widely used measurements of eating pathology in this population. The current study generated descriptive information among A-MENA women on two widely used measures of eating pathology, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and the Emotional Eating Scale (EES). Participants (N = 244) were A-MENA adult women were recruited via social media and snowball sampling. Qualitative findings provide potential sociocultural predictors of disordered eating that should be further explored, such as bicultural identity and family pressures/comments toward appearance. Secondly, themes from the EES-R indicate adding emotion of shame and considering identity-related stress. The current study provides prevalence data and future directions of research on widely used eating pathology and appearance attitude measurements for A-MENA American women.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The present study was funded by the Center of Arab American Philanthropy.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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